I am so glad this a new week and I am done with my recovery week!!!! Back to lifting big strong weights and feeling powerful again!! I swear I thought Chris was gonna ditch me last week with my light recovery week but he didn't and was an awesome workout buddy! Last night he wanted to see if he could push what I do on the leg press and he pushed 500 lbs for 11 reps. Proud of him!

So loving my calves today!! I need to start working on my winter diet which will be full of soups, stew and chili. Just need to make sure I get enough of a variety of vegetables, legumes and grains to keep me full and help me lean out. I have been thinking a lot about going raw but with winter fast approaching I want hot foods that will warm me from the inside out and raw foods have a bit more of a cooling effect on me.

After I finish off this box of steel cut oats I am switching to millet because I can buy it in bulk cheaper than a box of gluten free steel cut oats and I am trying to do everything I can to cut costs right now because funds are super tight. Oh the joys of being poor lol!!!

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_________________I do because I can. I can because I want to. I want to because you said I couldn't.

Thanks PPW!!! Most people who actually have seen them in person want my calves including my trainer, his gf, my training buddy and one of my best friends. Was funny cause I went to sit down last night for a set of incline DB press and my trainer's gf was like omg I want your calves out of nowhere. Warms my heart

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I am completely surprised by what my mind is letting my body do what it wants to do and isn't talking all negative or talking me out of it!Pre lunch snack (stomach was angry until I gave it the fruit)2 prunes1 date

Today already feels like attack of the hunger pains.... Didn't even make it halfway through my workout this morning before my stomach started talking about food. Needless to say that by the time I got to my protein shake I downed most of it pretty fast lol. I know my body is ready for a rest day which has been bumped back to Friday so that I can do yoga and relax the rest of the day .

So didn't want to wake up this morning!!! Finding my meals aren't lasting long. Not sure what to do cause I know if I add anymore calories I will be need to go to Goodwill for slightly bigger pants lol. I don't know what is going to happen when I go to cut weight.......

Food looks good, training looks solid... so just the getting up in the morning that's a little dodgy. I hear ya !!

You ever tried soaking the oats? Doing this ensures a higher bioavailability of the proteins in the grain and better absorption of the nutrients, and IMO they taste better that way as well. Soaked oats are easier on your digestion and fill you up for longer. ONLY when oats are eaten raw do they deliver digestive enzymes to the stomach and prebiotics to the gut. Prebiotics are the natural foods that support and feed your healthy good bacterial population that run your intestinal health (and therefore your immune system). Food heated over sustained temperatures of 118 degrees virtually destroys all all of the natural digestive enzymes and prebiotics that would have been present before cooking.

Sorry for the ramble... hope you have a great weekend. Much planned? Do you normally take the weekend off the gym or not?

I would be inclined to think my calves are genetically well-muscled, I do train them hard though.

Never really thought about soaking my oats. But then again I am still pretty novice when it comes to food. Raw foods have intrigued me but again I am a novice and have a lot to learn.

I never take the weekend off because I am usually helping a friend train and end up just doing cardio. Right now I am trying to train for a 5k which is coming along nicely considering the thought of running made me cringe. I used to smoke and majorly over weight so now that the weight is coming off and the muscles are getting stronger running is just so much easier. Still trying to get the lung capacity up but even that gets better with each practice run. Like today I set the treadmill for 30 min and warmed up for 3 1/2 min and then took off. Only walked 2 1/2 min after that just to find a new song to listen to and to catch my breath. Hoping to run the Thanksgiving Day 5k for Harvester's.

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The run is Nov 22 which is my training partner's birthday. I have been off cigarettes for like 4 yrs now. I quit because of the price alone even though I didn't want to but now I am sooooo glad I quit.

I am so ready to leave work so I can go to the gym and run off the graham crackers I snacked on. Instead of setting the time on the treadmill I am going to just set it up for the 5k program. I think once I get the 5k down I will try the 10k. Beginning to think I am a born runner who is just now discovering it

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